Hi,
Somewhere in your X resource files (e.g. .Xdefaults) you have set for XTerm the color black, but it has a space after. It looks like this: "black ". You should remove the space. I also had this problem :).
Florentin --Florentin Picioroaga University of Karlsruhe
Dept. of Computer Science Phone:(+49) 721-6083546 Germany